Introducing HI’s Next Game (3): Bubble Tanks Arenas

That’s right, all you Bubble Tanks fans! Hero Interactive is back again with an all new Bubble Tanks game. This isn’t the Bubble Tanks 3 that some people have been looking for, but instead, it’s a slight variation on the Bubble Tanks series. Rather than searching through an endless field of bubbles for enemies, you will be able to choose from a series of Arenas – Arenas are sequences of bubblefields, but in order to move into the next field you will have to clear the one that you’re in of all enemies.

So for example, you may have to clear out 10 progressively more difficult bubblefields to complete an arena. Once you do, you get a score based on how far you got ’till you died, your time to complete, and so forth. Scores are submitted to high score boards and can earn you bubble tokens!

A very exciting feature of BTArenas is that players will be able to design their very own Bubble Tank! Using Bubble Tokens, you can purchase bubbles and better parts and then use your tank to fight in the arenas. We are also toying with the idea of designing your own enemies to submit to our server so millions of other people can fight them in the arenas.

We have gotten a TON of BT feedback from players on LOTS of sites and we are trying to take a lot of that into account to make yet another AWESOME Bubble Tanks game.

So those are Hero Interactive’s next three games! Are you excited?! We are…

Dude, PURE AWESOMNESS!!! I Can’t wait to play it and to make my own bubbletank I’ve been designing some bubbletanks on paper. I might make them and send them. And yes, I’m VERY VERY excited about it hehe!

I, personally, would be SOOO excited to see Bubble Tanks on a console. That’s something that the guys have talked about in the past, but it’s not really something that we’re looking into right now, I don’t think. It’d be way cool though.

Wow now i wish freewebs could do it so my mates can play it at break and there free time in school, The problem is i can only link it and the school just blocks it and if i want know how to do it i have to pay a fiver . but this is still quite freeky in that just yesterday i was thinking about a game where you can design your own bubble tanks,and today i go on heroand i find that theres a game that does exctly that wow im going to play spore and disgn some bubble tanks!

How bought like we can color,cuz im getting kinda tired of blue,I am a boy but I like stuff like purple so like we can each bubble piece sepretly,might take longer so we wont look like the same in- wait you should add PvP like a freind if he plays the game he can give you a code and thats his tank and when you load it gives you the option to play with it or fight it like its a enemy.Hmmm what do you think?Im thinking 7 more months and it should be done.

This Is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO c00l I ant wait I am not a nerd because I am a quarter back but I play this game when Im off practice And I just Cant wait for it to come out!!!!!!!!! PLZ HI hurry up with this game IM getting really impatient.

This is going to be sooo cool whan i play bubble tanks arenas i’ve been waiting for a type of bubble tank game with you’re own custom desigh of your own bubble tank! But its a wonder when you dont know when it come out.

I was wondering if in bubble tanks arenas theres a arena rampage mode in the main menu so you could take on endless arenas and they get more bigger and meaner enemys with every arena finished the colour of the bubble arena should change wtih every arena completed and maybe when you just started you enter your profile name and you could look through all of your profiles in the profile section of the main menu.
P.S i agree with painting and changing bubble tank colours and of course i love the BT series.

i was wondering if there are any weapon upgrades when you use your bubble tokens like increase attack and stuff like that because it would kind of boring having the same weapons with the same combat stats and it would be fun if you can buy a
new tank upgrade. This makes the following bubble tank install a new secondary weapon for their bubble tank.

guys dont be like:”omg im waiting! BTA will be updated soon.
good things come to poeple who wait
oh and mabye add that you can make every part in other color or in the tank making you can make that every wepon or every part got hes weight and if you put alot of parts it can slow you down…
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Bubble Tank Arenas gonna be awsome!

3 words. THIS IS AWESOME! I wuv the bubble tank series. I couldn’t wait for the next one! I maxed out every bubble, every combination, killed every enemy, and was satisfied, until the next morning. I hope this will quench my appetite for bubbles!

PLEASE BRING IT OUT PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR AGES AND I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS OF MAKING A TANK THIS IS GONA ROCK

Spamming like 5 year olds won’t help. Keep your mind on TLC and try to find something productive to do. Flash games are NOT easy to make. Let me rephrase that to the “quicky” flash makers. GOOD flash games are not easy to make. I know with a first hand exp.

wow i cant wait to see what weapons they have. i must also say the new storm winds has a great selection of new weapons. if you liked it before then youll love it now. please hurry up on bta, i was kinda disappointed when stormwinds came out first. but it is still a awesome game

Oh, awesome. I came over to see if you guys made anything new, and whaddya know, three new games on the way. Can’t wait to make my own tank. Gonna put a really big repeater and a really big cannon on it. Lol.

Seriously, When will it be coming out? I am checking the website every day, but It’s really annoying…
I can’t wait! I hope that BTA is as big a step up from BT2 as BT2 was from the original, not that BT2 is anything less than amazing, but it would be absolutely worthy of a Bravatavo! And a Grindelfelsen!

boys it won’t come. I mean look how many replies there are made!!! to see this you have to scroll all over down. I guess none of who read this’ have read the middle one. so it won’t come. just try to live with it

AAAAAAAAAlright. When I said that the game was in development, what I should have said was, “BTA as well as a few other games are currently in development.” Yes, we’ve started working on it. However, we have other games that will be perfected and released first. Our latest StormWinds game, for instance, recently came out and I would expect our awesome defense game, Pirate Defense, before BTA. Bubble Tanks are, by far, our most popular games so we feel that we need to spend the most time on them. Someone above said that good Flash games are difficult and time consuming to produce – they are SO right. We’re taking our time here so please please PLEASE be patient with us. I promise, we’re not trying to ruin your lives, haha!

Thanks Steph!
Anyway, don’t many of you have something better to do then just checking your computers every 10 seconds? Wait don’t answer that. BUT if many of you are complaining about Steph not releasing the game yet,how about YOU try and make a successful game!
It ain’t easy, so leave it to the experts.
(Of course you know who I’m talking about.)
So, try to limit how much complaining you do!
Better yet, don’t at all!

cmon guys. Its not that big of a deal. Yes, Bubble Tanks is probably the best Flash series ever. BUT, don’t get on these guys butts to hurry up. It doesn’t help. In fact, they probably take longer because you all are complaining. So get off of them and let them do it at their own pace. It will be done when its done. Bubble Tanks really is awesome though, keep up the good work.

but all i ask is to realease a BETA you know
something that is a preview of what you have so far it will also
cut down on the noob talk so
i ask of you steph how come you cant release a BETA where
we can choose bubble tanks already made and just play with them
until the real version comes out and we can make our own?

Alright. Let me go into further detail here. Bubble Tanks Arenas is in development. Now, when I say that I mean that it could be at any number of stages in the game creation process. In this case, to be specific, it’s in the very beginning of the process – for example, we’re doing a lot of brainstorming, drawing, conversing with ourselves as well as outside sources, going through player feedback, etc. There’s a LOT that needs to be done before we start programming. Therefore, there IS NO beta aside from Bubble Tanks 2. Sorry to disappoint you guys, but we’re currently doing the art and programming for Pirate Defense and we can unfortunately only do one thing (or at best, a few things) at a time. So! In conclusion, there’s no beta. We’ll be keeping you updated, though. I promise.

Yes, so PLEASE stop bothering him.
As Kalvine said, the longer we wait, the better.
Would you like it to be released now and all you do is command a circle that is black and move it forward and you win the whole game?
No, really, tell me.
And if you think it is so easy, as I said before, make you own stinkin’ game!
And watch me watch you fail if you assume that.
Do you even know how to do an A-B-A transfer? Or how about A-B-C-B-A?
Those are BASICS to know.
If you don’t know how to even think about how to do that, then don’t post “When will this come out!” or “WHAH I HURT MY FOOT AND I WANNA PLAY SOMIN SO REALEASE IT!”
Really I just put that for an example.

Hahaha! Thanks, Andy. But I don’t actually create the games. I have some creative input but Jared and Eric are the guys responsible for the awesome games that HI has. I’m just the lucky gal who gets to converse with all of you lovely people!

Wow guys. Yall are just a bunch of winers. Really, you sound like a bunch of 1st graders. Like Andy said, the longer they take, the better it is. Personally I wouldn’t be bothered if it took 2 years. Know why? Because it would be that much more epic. Stop whining. You’ll get youre game. Just be patient.

This is EXACTLY what I said NOT to do!
DO you think they would want to release it, when there are people like you?
I’d tell you, if I was still makin’ games, I would close down the site and move, only telling a select few people, and coding it so that they only get the plugin.
I would even make sure they had a password so that they could only enter the site.

maybe you can have secondary upgrades like increase bullet speed or damage or rate of fire. also, another weapon could be gatling gun with an EXTREMELY high rate of fire. thanks for making this game!!!!

What u should do is make it so that you can add a couple of preset vehicles every once in a while. And possib;y even be able to have a profile or something where you could store all your custom tanks. Keep up the good work!

Hey I know you guys don’t have a planned release date yet, but do you have any basic screenshots or something yet? If you guys aren’t that far yet than I’m sorry and I’ll just keep waiting, but if you do have any good stuff to show us could you please?

Another crazy idea that just might work: Turret mode!…or defense mode or something like that. Anyway, you control a turret bubble like the rotating machine gun or even the destroyer – after of course, you unlocked them in normal mode and you have to protect your bubble from all comers. You could even face your own created tanks. Maybe you could take over multiple turrets as well and have a fortress or something crazy. Well done so far!

BTA doesn’t have a release date AT ALL. No speculation or anything. We don’t know when it’ll come out. In the past whenever we tell people the release date and things get pushed back they say, “Man I wish you wouldn’t even tell us the release date and surprise us!” Well, ladies and gents, that’s the approach we’re taking this time. You’re just going to have to be surprised I’m afraid. I’m sure you can wait a year…as I’m not sure what else you CAN do.

People, I check the site daily too. I am eager to play and admit that I get impatient at times, but let’s be reasonable. We do not need to post every day. I’ve checked since this blog was posted, and this is my second comment.

THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE A RELEASE DATE

THEY ARE NOT GOING TO EMAIL UPDATES TO YOU

THEY WILL NOT KEEP YOU POSTED ON THIS GAME’S PROGRESS

IF YOU DON’T HAVE ANYTHING MEANINGFUL TO SAY, DON’T POST HERE

the #1 Bubble Tanks Fan who is glad BTA will be a surprise because it will be that much better, Ov3rkill13

P.S. Unfortunately, people will read this and not care and still post meaningless junk here because they are idiots who have the IQ of a bowl of pudding, but I tried Steph, I really did. The fact is that we don’t realize that playing HI’s games is a privelege, not a right. HI can choose not to make BTA, and they have every right to do so.

I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it. The answer to life is 42.

Hahaha! Thanks guys. I appreciate the support. The truth is that we WILL keep you all updated on the progress of the game. Right now, it’s not really making any progress. We’ve started working on it and are currently taking a short break to work on Pirate Defense and some other projects. If anything changes we will update you!

One of my last post. Please listen and do not post things like, “When will this come out?” For, that question was answered literally 40 times.
And, to the team of HI, Take all the time you need!
The longer you spend on it, the more awesome this game will be!
So,
Andy12handy, Signing off.
(For now……………)

WTF. NO MULTIPLAYER? NO MASSIVE WORLD?
They have a gem on their hands. Think outside the box.

MAKE A MASSIVE WORLD, 5 or so huge servers with up to 500 concurrent players each.
GIANT BUBBLES MAPS, that can be cleaned (enemies spawn temporarily), destroyed (allowing to change the landscape through your actions), created (if certain bubbles around over populate with npcs, thus making them split creating other semi-permanent bubbles, affecting the terrain in a timely basis) or controlled by players (you cant destroy everything, eventually you have to control certain areas to serve as defense position against the enemy bubbles and other players tanks)
TERRITORY, fight for the control of bubbles areas along with your fellow bubble tanks.
ECONOMY, the controled bubbles generate bubbles that can be exchanged and used to buy/sell equipments, upgrades, skills, and improve your territory NPCs/Defenses.
PVP, make some areas protected from PVP (special bubbles), and other areas with PVP free for all. PVE.
QUESTS (clean bubble areas, destroy certain types of enemies, kill bosses, defend bubbles against invading enemies npcs for a certain period of time, destroy/create bubbles permanently, expand territory, seek and destroy mortal virus agents bubbles to spread and contaminate bubble areas)

RANDOM BOSSES ENCOUNTERS.

LORE OF BUBBLE WORLD. Discover the truth behind the Bubbles, the antagonists, their interests, the persistant struggle for survival, the role of the bubble players in the bigger scheme of things.

OPEN CHARACTER EVOLUTION STRUCTURE.
Player decide what upgrades he wants.
ability to “rebubble” everything at any time for a cost.
Ability to not only decide your bubble structure (wich decides what slots will be open for bubble equipments/artifacts)
Deep Crafting System using bubbles acquired from enemy bubbles as material. Endless possibilities.
Suffixes/Preffixes are randomized.

WOW those are some detailed ideas.. Right now i think they goota figure out the basics… then MABEY, make a second one thats like an online version… like “interesting” said. I agree with almost all of that.. just, if you are going to make an online version, you will have to make different servers for different levels of tanks example: one for beginners with a level 2 tank for instance,or an intermediate one for level 3-8 tanks … so on and so so forth….. Great job HI. Your doing great with everything!

can you make it so when you go to a new tank you can keep your:) primery or secendery:) wepon cos when i was bft1 i wanted to keep my seekers and i migh have had:) 5 or 6 when i became:)bft2 can you make:) it so you can battle peapol from across the WORLD but no chat room cos my big bro got me banned and a (team:)deth mach with 5 bubbles 3 kill streak recon BUBBLE plane (seek out enamys on a radar) 5 kill streak air strike 1 armor pearcing shell bombs in each bubble 7 kill strak 15 ally swarm fighters 10 kill streak 10 s fighters 13 kill streak 7 heavy guns 3 sticky guns
16 kill streak 5 beatle and so on gumping in 2s and 3s get the bubbles tho you can have goodys that only you and your allys can kill you can
change mine thare gust an eg and you culd have capture the bubble or defend the bubble you and some other peapol can fight from tiny small guy to distroyer

i cant beleve a game with bubbles with gans attached can bu soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awsome

Whoa, there! These are some nice ideas, but now you are talking about an MMO, which aren’t easy to make. These are some of the most complicated games EVER!!! You have to keep in mind that only a few people are making this game, and MMOs take a whole team oof 50 people years to make. Would you guys like this game to come out before 2030? I’m not saying it isn’t possible, but if you get your expectations too high, you’ll be sorely disappointed (no offense to HI, of course). Plus, MMOs cost money to maintain the servers. Howw would you like to pay a monthly fee just to play Bubble Tanks Arenas? Seriously guys, think real for a moment.

P.S. They are all good ideas, and I don’t mean to be a spoilsport, but let’s not put unnecessary pressure on our favorite game producer.

jezz peoples…. stop whining!!!!!1the more u lot whinge about how long its taking the less time the creators will have to make the actual game beacause they will be to busy trying to tell u lot to STOP WHINING!!!(so basically stop complaing and it (might) come out quicklier!!!)

You guys are all acting like you have nothing better to do than to sit red-eyed at your computers clicking “REFRESH… REFRESH… REFRESH…” feverly waiting for the game to be uploaded despite the fact that they haven’t even stated a release date yet, and they seem to be far more focused on Pirate Defense.

I would want to ask you something about if we can really create our own enemies.
Will someone(Maybe a lot..) might create an enemies without thinking? They will just make it too overpowered or too much sprawning and save and let others play it. When you will randomly choose the enemies other make it, you will get those messy enemies.
Like Starshine 2, when I randomed the level, I will usually get a level full of green stars, and my comouter lag.

Yeah, don’t you hate that? You lose all bubbles and find yourself stuck with five destroyers and all you have to defend yourself is a single “bleup bleup” gun. They probably will make a fale safe mechanism to prevent that though.

For the last time, BTA is still in development, I don’t even think it’s past the “click to shoot” Part! So,
1.Stop asking when it’s going to be released, We told you a million times when.
2.Stop asking for them to make another while they are still working heavily on 2 games.
3.Stop asking to Beta test it.

He’s not asking for a beta, he’s offering his services as a playablility tester. I can do a little bit of that as well, but i wont have that much free time (the one bad part of boarding school). Is the comment deadline getting longer for a reason?

Lolz, the comment deadline has NOTHING to do with Bubble Tanks Arenas. It prevents spamming bots from posting spam to old blog posts. As long as people keep active in this post, the deadline gets pushed away. But old posts get their comments closed, that way bots can’t attempt to spam them.

i dont think he is ok…:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)…he a genius!!!1

Sure, that will be like a year. But if your willin to wait unlike some ppl here who would kill if it wasn’t released now. Nothing scary like *Shiver* a spider but something small like a carrot. I am still keeping my sanity with StarCraft and it’s expansion BW! Must. Kill. Battle Cruiser in TD Vortex…..

o boy i think its online and create weapons shot gun or put it to machine gun shot gun mine landers red bubbles dont touch red bubbles! seeker weapon big gun sticky gun drones auto big gun/gun that shoot auto like go around to shoot and i think its making there own arena to have fun lets vote!!!!! and you can have ally turrets you will have fun a lot i will vote there will be more weapons maybe in this version

hahahahahahaha i will make the secret weapon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! weapons auto big gun shot gun mines drones ally turrets i am happy!! i will get machine guns red bubbles this place is a genius! thanks alot guys

Umm guys u do know that this is JUST a flash game u will prolly stop playing after like maybe 3 hours at most and then play it for like 20 minutes other days…u guys are wayyy to siked for this game…but i KNOW this game is gonna rock and maybe be the best flash game ive played xD

supplz
“Umm guys u do know that this is JUST a flash game u will prolly stop playing after like maybe 3 hours at most and then play it for like 20 minutes other days…u guys are wayyy to siked for this game…but i KNOW this game is gonna rock and maybe be the best flash game ive played xD”

well, personally, i play bubble tanks 2 like 2 hours per day every day, and have been for like the last 3 months, and if this game is even half as cool as that, i will not stop playing after three hours:)

Will the 3rd have the Leecher, Drone, and Super Fighter Tanks. If so it will be awesome any way… I beat 1 and 2 in 67.23 mins.. This one might have something on me. Who knows? But if this one dosn’t have these three tanks I will not play it. It would also be awesome if you could customize you tank, and have all the firsts and seconds weapons to do so.

by the way, will you make soem kind of manually detonated weapons? like a bomb you fire once that either explodes on contact or sticks to surfaces, then you can choose when to detonate? like clicking space to fire, the space again to detonate… would be awesome!

I am a HUGE bubble tanks fan, and can i ask? if the bubbles that make up your tank will be red (or perhaps different arenas have different colors) will the ammo or damaging bubbles be blue?
Also is there any expected date it will be done? and pleeeeeeeeeese put it on kongregate as soon as it comes out there are a LOT of people wwho rate it 5 there (plus the overall rating everyone gave was 4 and 1/4 to 4 and 1/2) thanks!

And finally when you design your own bubble tank, will all the parts you chose be symmettrical to each side or will you be able to put them anywhere you want and make an uneven creature and finally, is it optional

Maybe every weapon can be only in the middle if purchased as a single weapon and if you purchase like a thing that says (gun symbol)x2 or something as opposed to (gun symbol)x1 the first one will have to cost more than double the amount thouhg……….gosh this is so exciting I LIVE AND LOVE BUBBLE TANKS!

oh and please let there be NO LIMITED ARENAs, make like a few arenas where you can set the base difficulty (ie. one arena has levels 1-5, next 6-10, next etc)and then have randomly generated enemies. And if you can, can you make updates or patches for it at least tri-monthly or if you cant update it anymore stop, but trust me, gamers LOVE patches and updates, its what cha

oh and please let there be NO LIMITED ARENAs, make like a few arenas where you can set the base difficulty (ie. one arena has levels 1-5, next 6-10, next etc)and then have randomly generated enemies. And if you can, can you make updates or patches for it at least tri-monthly or if you cant update it anymore stop, but trust me, gamers LOVE patches and updates, its what changes gaming experiences and unlocks new possibilities. EVERYONE loves to see a new weapon or/….OH you could make lighter and heavier bubbles! lighter ones will have less health but will help you move faster and heavier ones the opposite. PLEASE READ THE SENTENCE I PREVIOUSLY WROTE.

Wow Turchx. That’s a lot of ideas! Well we DO read these and the guys HAVE thought of a lot of that stuff already, we just haven’t made concrete decisions on all of it. I am PRETTY sure that your custom tanks will be however you want them – symmetrical or asymmetrical. You’ll have the option to do it either way.

I believe it’s BFT and that stands for the Big Frikkin’ Tank.

Still no release date, but hang in there, we’ll have a new update on the blog in the next day or two.

Im not all crazy for the upgrade the weapons thing, because sometimes that gets a little old and you just like oldfashion arcade play, plus it also kindof kills part of the bubble tanks heritage, i mean we could get better weapons, but no upgrading…in a way. maybe if they like involuntarily upgrade like if they get experience each time they kill and evry time they level up they get auto upgrades–like in the original stormwinds

That would be cool if you could create your own weapons once you get enough points, but also progressively unlock weapon systems and aspects as you gain additional points. Alos be able to communicate your ideas and creations.

What would also be helpfull is if there is a main page which has all of the submitted items catogorizes by size, type, and class. In addition be able to purchas such items with points including: weapons, tanks,enemy tanks; levels.

-Also if there where a chat area and post bord of uppcomeing events on HI.

These are some ideas that I would like to be highly considerd in BTA. Even just a less complex, user frendly version.

How many weapons will be able to be mounted on the tanks? If their are more than two, will players be able to select their own hot keys? Also it would be cool if players could design custom drones, seekers, and shots…

Could (if at all possible) give us (BT fans) a time period in which the game will be coming out?

P.S. Please refrain from talking “waiter” on the behalf of all people… you vacuoles and inept person!
Thank you.

Sorry… I met to say vaculos… any way, I don’t fully revise my work. So in that case I stand corrected. On the other hand, “DeadlyMollusk” please try to use the commonsense that God gave you. I was hinting on saying (or publishing, writing, Etc.) such things as “… tell them a fake but resonable answer.” (Yes I know “resonable”, as it was put, is incorrect. but I was quoting waiter)
No I don’t mean the cell organ.
“No offence”

Turchx, I AM the same Steph that writes the blog but it’s not Steph-short for Stephen, it’s Steph-short for Stephanie. I know it’s hard to believe since I think I’m the only female on this whole site. Also, Pirate Defense should be released early next month, but there’s no specific date yet.

In bta you shold have cannon sizes like real tanks. Also i thimk you should be able to upgrade your cannon. Some examples are longer barrel which would give better picerce or an rifled barrel for more projectile speed.

you know what i think would be cool? being able to get minions to do what you tell them to, and simple command hotkeys like A: attack, S: stop attack, etc. in the end, you could send tons of them like soldiers, and you would be controling an army of them… just a thought

and maybe you could have a “minion store” or something like that, in wich you could choose from a variety of diffrent pre-made small bubble tanks of various power to help you, and a spot where you can custom make your own bubble tank minions… also, maybe if there will be an online arena you could match your army against the armies of other players, i think it could be cool…

hey i just came to see how the game developement was commin along and ive been reading some of the comments and just so you people complaining know it probably takes them longer to make the game the more you complain so please just shut up and let them get on with the game also ive been reading some of the suggestions for different ideas that people have posted and i like the idea of a close ranger weapon and i think another kool thing to hav e would be if you could clone your tank or get allies that move with you or seperatly either would be kool anyways good job people creating the game bt1 and 2 are ausome

Can you make it so you can constantly make improvements, like more upgrades for tanks and different enemies? That’d be nice. I really don’t care if it takes 3 years to make it, as long as it’s better or as good as Bubble Tanks 2.

ya again just readin some comments and i rly like the idea of having an army vs. someone elses army and you give you army commands and maybe you could rotate between guys in your own army and you would command the one you are in but if it died it would auto rotate you to a dif bubble tank ( kinda like battalion wars for gamecube or wii if anyone has played that

They came out with Pirate Defense first so it could keep BT fans busy wile the guys at the game joint sort out all the content in BTA! Soooooooo… it might take another month or two at the most. Remember this is going to be a huge game. So stay with it and don’t fall to pieces! I mean, even I yelled “NOOOOOOOO!”, too when they said months, but that is just how reality rolls. So as they say in the UK, “keep a stiff upper lip”.

totally awesome! i need a release date, though. and by the way, can BTA have a weapon maker? that would be freaking awesome… well, then again some people would make a weapon too powerful and win every round, oh-well. your choice

cmon HI football is already back in season and i cant wait any longer im off school but i still practice at home, i need some off time because football makes me sore all the time so cmon and make the #$@% game already…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………plz……:c

Add a feature so you can save more than one tank design. For games like these, I always like to make a fast guy and a slow tank guy so it would be nice to not have to completely delete your old tank to make a new one.

I’m very exited for them to realese the new bubble tanks game, or have they already realesed it. I can’t tell but, it has been a long time since they announced the new game coming out. It is seven months and twenty-three days since the anouncement to be exact. ~.~

hm… i like the bt1 and bt2 also… i think that
i think you guys can put something like this at bta
small bubble, reduces speed -1 cost ??
medium bubble, reduces speed -3 cost ??
large bubble, reduces speed -8 cost ??
huge bubble, reduces speed -13 cost ??
so… some weapons only can be put at some bubbles like
small gun can fit at small bubbles
and ultimate cannon only can fit at a huge bubble
so if you want a light tank use light and fast weapons that can fit at small bubbles and you’be fast and if you want a heavy tank use large and powerful weapons but your speed will be afected
i hope anything that i said can be used =D

oh and now that i have your attention i found a weird bug in BT2 i think it might be common, i saw it again on youtube, but i did take a screenshot of it. Would you like me to show you? PS It could be my page auto-Refreshig itself. Ive had that problem before and the bug only happened once so it isn’t really that big of a deal.

THIS IS GOING TO BE SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @#$%^&(*)$!@(#$@()%^#%^*%#@%^**%$@$&*(&%##^**&%#@%&*^#!@#^&**^$@$^^#@!!!!!!#%&&^$#^&*&^&%$#$^&*^#@# :D BD BD

Perhaps a rival flash game company might produce a bubble tanks arenas equivalent and release it before you guys release your version. Just sayin… we live in the age of impatience and competition. I would hate to see you loose many loyal fans due to “too little too late”.

That is true! But, I bet.. The longer it takes. The better it’ll be! So, SUBHIIDTBTGIO. Remember that from a long, long time ago. It means, shut up because HeroInteractive is doing their best to get it out.

Can you guys stop whining about it? Developing, programming, and scripting games is a long, difficult process for massive games like BTA. You try programming a game as massive as this, with just one friend and a limited amount of money(or no money at all), and tell me…do you think you can get it done under a year?

Begging for it to come faster and constantly whining about it won’t make the game get done quicker. Your better off playing some other games. In the meantime, there’s a really nice TD game called Creeper World, you should try it.

Random Dude, commenting every other post about stopping the whine isn’t going to get the game out any faster either. There’s almost more anti-whine posts than there is whining posts. These people do have a small reason to complain. Not that I agree with them, but not all of them are experienced game developers. They may be used to hearing about a game and getting it a few months later, who knows. Just chill and give them some slack.

P.S. He indeed is correct. Many of us would rather have some insightful thoughts on BTA instead of complainy whines. But we don’t control your choices. Happy posting-Kirtus

I’m new to this form but i still have to say i can’t wait till bubble tanks 3 comes out! I was half expecting for it to come out on chirstmas…. but it might come out on new years to but donno… i just hope IT COMES OUT SOON!! One perdiction is that at the bottom of the page it says: Comments for this post will be closed on 24 February 2010…. so i think that might be when it come out, but I hope it comes out sooner =). i’m just saying can you at least give us a date cuase…. I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!! =)

i heard that there’s going to be a multiplayer game mode.. I had a Question, my quest. is: can you make a tank in single player mode and then use it on multiplayer? but then everyone would do that and i guess for some people it would be fun but it would all matter in who built the biggest tank with the most gunz on it… so the other part of my quest. is are you going to make us have to start out as small tanks and have us fight more players but at the same level of course then level up and play other people at that level or you going to have them beable to bring in a tank they built in singleplayer?

I love some of those ideas of weapons that goon had… i thought it would be pretty cool to have some of those in the game…mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm orbital missile >=)!!
but.. THE PRESSURE IS TO MUCH ER’VE BEEN WAITING WHAT A YEAR NOW!!! WHY CAN’T YOU GUYS JUST MAKE A DEMO TO KEEP US BUSING WHY YOUR FINISHING IT!?!?!?!?!? i also think if are able to spawn more things on your side that be cool!!! like turrets or bigger and badder guys you can deploy!!! like some of the thinks goon said! I CAN’T WAIT!!!!

The HI crew still has quite a load of work to be done. Trust me, they will not disappoint you; the longer the game is developed, the better the graphics, weapons, points system and other such and such. So, would you like an incomplete, rushed game that would be no less than rubbish, OR a complete game that will keep you so glued to your screen, that the police have to use the Jaws of Life to remove you?

this is to wei2912, i think it would be pretty cool if you make your own arena but then everyone would just make the most biggest and baddest arena then just sit there and wait…… And what do you mean by upgrade paths? I think you can only build a ship, which is still REALLY COOL! Can you people just give us a due date for the darn game because I’m going to give up hope soon…. HURRY!!!!!

i have great ideas;
1. how about we get to make our own weapons,for example, we get to change how they look,make them different colours and morph them into new ones!
also how about we make a super weapon that is two of your bought or made weapons combined into another bubble tank body part (not same as morphing)
2. how about if you have discovered a seeker/drone tank you get to customize and morph and make your own seekers/drones!
3. how about you can morph different tanks into one!
(remember bubble tank supporters make the things i’ve listed very expensive about 300-890 but morphing your tank should be atleast 1000-1130

Me Again, Glad all you guys are enjoying it! I agree, I don’t think shell core command 2 will beat BTA. I’ll let you know if I get any more info on SCC2 though. I’ll also see if I can find any more cool games like that.

Me again, this is to fapple, no i don’t help make bta, but i would love to. I jsut show that preview of that website because i think people might like to watch it, and i could change it to Shell Core Command if you like. :p

They didn’t say they were releasing it quickly! They have to take their time, so that they can sweep throught the bugs and glitches that would normally drive their fans away…Which is why it’s taking nearly 2 years to develop. Just be patient, and you’ll get what you want, only bug-free.

…But then again, they didn’t say that they would release it SLOWLY. Hmm…

Also, they probably ARE taking your ideas, and they’re probably storing it somewhere for when the right time comes to use them.

this is taking way to long yall are losin multiple fans by the day ive even found my self not caring much about the threads its very important being a FLASH GAME to make it fast u see how fast age of war2 came out and its amazing and fans are still playing it every day

@that guy: Trust me, when this game comes out, you’ll be happy to know that this game is worth the long wait. It’s going to be awesome, and it’ll be off the charts considering popularity scores. Millions of people will simultaneously be glued to their computers, making giant bubble tanks and kicking arena butt. It’s going to be very epic, and if you don’t want to wait for it, then that’s fine with us. But just to let you know, most flash games should NOT be made quickly, unless you want a game with poor artwork, bad gameplay, and horrible grammar. Every intricate detail must be checked twice-over, to make sure no glitches appear. If HI didn’t care how many glitches and bugs it had, it’d be released 16 months ago. But then again, this is my opinion. You may see otherwise, but I proudly use my freedom of speech as a way to express thoughts and matters into a conversation.

Also, Michael, you wanted to learn about the smileys? Here ya go. Type in the corresponding codes, but without the spaces. Ready?

What features will the EC version of BTA have? As in, will there be more weapons to choose from in the EC version, or will the only difference between the EC and regular versions be that the EC has the enemy and arena editors?

GOON YOU BETTER NOT BE IN TROUBLE OR MODERATORS FROM WEBSITES, AS IN ME CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR ACCOUNTS DUDE SERIOUSLY I DID THIS TO ANOTHER BAD PERSON ON ANOTHER WEBSITE AND I DON’T WANT TO DO IT AGAIN

@fapple: Huh? Could you speak more clearly? No offence, of course. Although it sounds like you’re mad… at me? *calls upon his billions of troops, who engage their laser cannons* Now, are you mad at me?

@Steph: PLEASE FORGIVE ME! *takes Chill Pill*
But seriously, I deeply regret those actions. I don’t know WHAT I was thinking, and I was not monitering my actions like I usually do. Please find it in your moderating heart to forgive a ne’er-do-well such as me. You now have permission to ban me from this wonderful site…

If this is my final post before being banned for misconduct, then I’d like to wish my friends a safe journey and a good bye. From the heart of the Goon, farewell. Soon I shall join the other ne’er-do-wells who were posting many spam-like smiley lists. Well, the end of this post is drawing near…

The deadline is the little message saying “comments for this post will be closed on ___.”
When this deadline is met, since apparently no one comments on that certain blog anymore, it automatically disables you from commenting on it. It helps to keep the spam away.
Now, if you post a comment before that certain deadline is met, the deadline will be pushed forward to a later date, letting more people comment. The more comments that are posted, the farther back the deadline will be pushed. This is to keep blogs such as “BTA IS RELEASED!!!” from disabling commenting in 3 seconds, leading to swarms of angry mobs attacking HI.

You understand?

Please note that the “BTA IS RELEASED!!!” blog does not exist; I was merely stating it as an example. I don’t even know if that’ll be the actual title of the blog or not, so don’t get mad at me for lying to you, even though I didn’t.

Hehe, I changed it back. Normal old Goon, the name suits me perfectly.

You can all relax now. They are working extra this week(I heard this via the Twitter section up there), and they are having 3 developers working on the game at once; contrary to the blog that said that more than 2 people would cause unwanted complications. You get what I’m saying?

@Drake: Uhh… that’s a pretty weird question, no offense of course. I never really thought about that, though. *nervously takes out a tiny Goonzese ruler*

@fapple: How is being divisible by 10 lucky? Elaborate…

@cross and nathan: Well, be happy, because BTA should be coming out by July. Now will you stop scaring people with your demanding voices?

@Hero Interactive(whoever is reading this): Since you’re still developing BTA, maybe you should make the Armor Games logo out of bubbles? I don’t really know how that works, but I know it would look awesome.

@steve:i know steve but he ment taking them out the bubbles in the game and also is armor games hero interactives closest friend website? as in,are there hero interactives buddy like site? (i hope they are because HI and AG rock together!)

okay first of all, fapple, if you’re talking to ME, my name isn’t Steve, it’s Steph which is short for Stephanie which is a woman’s name. ‘Cause I’m a woman. Okay, now that that’s cleared up, no we’re not taking the ArmorGames logos out at all. They paid us to put them in there and so they stay. Plus we like AG…they’re way cool! Yes, they’re our buddies.

@Steph: Nono! I never said anything about taking the AG logo out COMPLETELY! What I meant was that you could make the AG logo out of BUBBLES.

@fapple: Yeah… I know you thought that Steph was short for Stephen, which is why you called Steph Steve. It’s an honest mistake, really. But THIS Steph is short for Stephanie. Yes, it does get confusing at times. *maybe she should un-shorten her name…*

Although it’s difficult to tell if Steph is a woman or not(some of her blog posts have a touch of “manly” dialogue; add that to the “Stephen” possibility), if she says she’s a woman, then she IS a woman.

@Steph: What the heck are “ovaries?” I suspect only females have them?
“Manly dialogue” refers to the way you sometimes speak in a blog; sometimes you sound like a male is speaking, which is why some people get confused by your gender.

@switchview: Epic War 2 has little replay value in my eyes, but others may see otherwise…

i cant believe people still wait for the game i mean its been told to b being made by 2009 and now its been a year almost….. and watever happend to \\\ always there ???? i think ive been waiting inof time for the game i mean theres gona b like a bubble tanks arena 2 and if that dos happen wats it gona take?? 5 years?? im just tired of waiting……

WOW really? and,well,sorry to do this but,ummm,well,i’m also kinda gettin board of waitin’ for .B.T.A. it’s,it’s,just been along time now and,well, i’m really fustrated about the game,so,if it helps,just speed up the process alittle, will ya? please.

Well fapple, they currently have THREE men on the BTA development squad.

That’s more than usual.

Now, they have their reasons for this.
They know that they’ve taken a LONG (think Halo 3…not) time to create this game, so they had to make an exception.

Also, they’re working on the gameplay of BTA (look at the “A Long Awaited BTA Screen Shot” blog). Working on the gameplay should be easy for them, because they’ve done it twice before. The only thing they need to add/change is the color and the B/GP system, although there could be more than that…

Making these game is hard work, and takes a while to finish. BTA is a HUGE (think Halo 3) game, so it will take A LOT longer to finish than the other HI games, even though BTA is a flash game. *It’s an awesome flash game, you know!*

BTA is almost done, judging by the information given to us, so here’s a HYPOTHETICALLY HYPOTHETICAL check-list of their progress, HYPOTHETICALLY. *I found it from Ebil!, but I’m willing to make a few adjustments*

Each percentage signifies the chance of completion per. NOTE: THESE PERCENTAGES ARE NOT PROGRESS PERCENTAGES! *Duh, I don’t work with HI, so how would I know?*

Didn’t we mention once that we’re using a TOTALLY new programming language to create BTA? It’s not like we can just take the old stuff and rework it. We had completely started from scratch. That’s added a lot of time to this project.

I’m just in a bit of shock. I haven’t heard you(HI) say anything about changing programming languages.

*Now I’m going to have to re-calculate everything… hmph*

Fapple, Stephanie meant that HI used a newer, better(was it?) program to create BTA, rather than the old one they originally had worked with. They could not transfer the BTA data from the older program, so they had to start BTA from scratch…again. This, obviously, added tons of time to their progress, which is why I was shocked(I had everything calculated and planned out, darn it!).

On another note, the BTA picture in the “Projects in Development” section a different shade of color (on the bubbles) than in the screenshot/video?
Look hard, and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

No, the “Uh ohh…” blog came after we started redeveloping the game a long time ago. So! We started this game from scratch with an all new programming language, a huge hard drive crash made us lose a little progress, and this game has much more complicated parts to be programmed. It has taken a while but we’re making lots of awesome progress – which you can see! We’re really excited.